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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Professor Matthew S. Meselson is persisting in his claim that yellow rain is instead the feces of wild honeybees. Bee feces, Meselson and a Yale colleague have found, bear strong resemblances--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which in fact contained pollen. Now back from a trip to Thailand, the scientists say they observed honey bees on defecation flights spraying the yellow spots that the government says are the residue of Soviet chemical weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compelling Facts | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

Wearing Snoopy earrings and a purple coat dotted with Teddy-bear pins, Virginia McMartin, 76, a white-haired widow, sat in a wheelchair last week in a Los Angeles superior court, her head bowed low. McMartin, three relatives and three other women faced charges that they sodomized, fondled and raped more than 100 preschool children at a day-care center run by McMartin in Manhattan Beach, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brutalized: McMartins and Sex in the Nursery | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...banal nature art with worthy moral lessons: Save the whales, admire the mallard, reflect on the moral transformation of the seagull. The boots one sees protruding from this tumulus of Orvis-catalogue kitsch are poor dead Thoreau's. But to bring a whole mode of invention to bear on some aspect of the natural world, to reinvent its emblems within a living tradition of art history-even for a moment, or in a fragmentary way-is rather more difficult, and that is what Nancy Graves has done with these sculptures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intensifications of Nature | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...virtually alone in the other camp, which favored giving military and economic aid to El Salvador while bringing the overwhelming economic strength and political influence of the U.S., together with the reality of its military power, to bear on Cuba in order to treat the problem at its source. In my view that the potential strategic gain from this combination of measures far outweighed the risks, and that the U.S. could contain any Soviet countermeasures, I was isolated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Where's the beef?" has transformed Clara Peller into a cult star. The diminutive former Chicago beauty-shop owner stands to get an as yet unnegotiated percentage of the profits from licensed items that bear her likeness. She has already completed a West Coast promotional tour and appeared on Today, Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight. So far Peller has received more than 600 fan letters, and a Clara Peller fan club is being planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Ribbing | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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